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Genetics

1. Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes

   Richard C. Francis

   Goodbye, genetic blueprint. . . . The first book for general readers 
on the game-changing field of epigenetics.More

2. DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America

   Bryan Sykes

   Crisscrossing the continent, a renowned geneticist provides a groundbreaking examination of America through its DNA.More

3. The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA

   Jeff Wheelwright

   A brilliant and emotionally resonant exploration of science and family history.More

4. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

   Cordelia Fine

   “[Fine’s] sharp tongue is tempered with humor. . . . Read this book and see how complex and fascinating the whole issue is.”—The New York TimesMore

5. Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland

   Bryan Sykes

   From the best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, an illuminating guide to the genetic history of the British Isles.More

6. After Dolly: The Promise and Perils of Cloning

   Roger Highfield, Ian Wilmut

   A brave, moral argument for cloning and its power to fight disease.More

7. Adam's Curse: A Future without Men

   Bryan Sykes

   The inside story of the Y chromosome's fatal flaw, as told by one of the world's leading geneticists.More

8. The Psychobiology of Gene Expression: Neuroscience and Neurogenesis in Hypnosis and the Healing Arts

   Ernest L. Rossi

   The new understanding of the relationships between gene expression and human experience emerging from the Human Genome Project is setting the stage for a profound expansion of our understanding of life.More

9. The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

   Bryan Sykes

   The national bestseller that reveals how we are descended from seven prehistoric women. More

10. Rosalind Franklin and DNA

    Anne Sayre

    Rosalind Franklin's research was central to the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA. She never received the credit she was due during her lifetime.
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11. Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning

    Martha C. Nussbaum, Cass R. Sunstein

    "These two dozen essays by experts ranging from Stephen Jay Gould to Andrea Dworkin are an excellent guide to the post-Dolly world." --Chicago Tribune, Choice Selections of 1998More

12. Climbing Mount Improbable

    Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward

    A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker.More

13. Altered Fates: The Genetic Re-engineering of Human Life

    Peter Gorner, Jeff Lyon

    Seven years in the making, Altered Fates chronicles the saga of gene therapy, a medical revolution unparalleled in human history.More

14. The Mismeasure of Man

    Stephen Jay Gould

    Revised & Expanded

    The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.More

15. The Transforming Principle: Discovering that Genes Are Made of DNA

    Maclyn McCarty

    Forty years ago, three medical researchers—Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty—made the discovery that DNA is the genetic material. With this finding was born the modern era of molecular biology and genetics.More